GNOME: Perbedaan antara revisi

Awalnya "GNOME" merupakan akronim dari ''GNU Network Object Model Environment'', sesuai dengan rencana awalnya untuk mendistribuskikan kerangka objek yang mirip dengan [[Microsoft]]'s [[OLE]]<ref>{{citation |url = http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/ggad.html |title = GTK+ / Gnome Application Development |last = Pennington |first = Havoc |authorlink = Havoc Pennington |chapter = What is Gnome? |chapter-url = http://web.archive.org/web/20100514071800/http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/z2.html |year = 1999 |archiveurl = httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20100824183314/http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/ggad.html |archivedate = 2010-08-24 |accessdate = 2011-12-23 |dead-url = yes }}</ref>; namun akronim ini sudah tidak dipakai<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2010-April/msg00050.html |title=Re: GNOME -> Gnome |accessdate=2011-12-10}}</ref> karena sudah tidak sesuai dengan visi proyek GNOME.

|Pengembangan GNOME diumumkan<ref>{{cite web | url = http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html | title = The story of the GNOME project | first = Miguel | last = de Icaza | access-date = 2011-12-23 | archive-date = 2011-08-23 | archive-url = https://www.webcitation.org/619aY5vzu?url=http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html | dead-url = yes }}</ref>